On 27 January 2014 00:19, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > On 25 Jan 2014, at 20:53, LizR wrote: > > I think you guys need to provide your definitions of God and compare them. > I imagine they're rather different. > > I did. Very often. I did again in my preceding post to John Clark. > > And John did it also. For John, like for many fundamentalist atheists, God > is the God of the Christian bible, or perhaps the Abramanic religions. >
OK, so your notion of God is "whatever is fundamentally responsible for existence" - hence primitive materialism makes matter (energy etc) play the part of God, in that sense. I can see that - an explanation that stops at matter and says "that's it!" is indeed making it a God, in the same way a religious person does when they say "God did it, end of story!" fwiw I agree with Bruno on this, his broader sense of "God" makes sense and is more worthy of our attention than the "Sky Father sitting on a cloud" (which isn't even the concept of God in all religions). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
